Installing Drivers for Blade 3 Boards

To successfully operate Blade 3 boards after installing them into Cluster Box, you must update the boot image file and install a driver for the Blade 3 boards. This document provides you guidance on how to update the boot image file and install the driver.

You can watch the following video to get a quick start.

Preparations

• Download boot image file: boot.img
• Download driver: miop-control-arm64.deb
• Install ADB tool by referring to Install ADB.
• Prepare a USB-C cable.
• Make sure you are using the Debian system for Blade 3 boards. There are some issues when using the Ubuntu system.

Steps 

Step 1. Download the boot image file and driver and put them to the Blade 3 board

1.1 Connect your PC or Mac to the USB-C port (near HDMI) of Blade 3 indicated by N1 using the USB-C cable.

1.2 Download the boot image file and driver to your PC or Mac. Under the directory of the two files, run the following adb command to push them to the Blade 3 board: 

adb push boot.img miop-control-arm64.deb /home/mixtile

Note: You can also download the files to the Blade 3 board directly, or upload them to Blade 3 remotely by running the command: scp boot.img miop-control-arm64.deb mixtile@blade 3 IP address: /home/mixtile.

Step 2. Update the boot image file and install the driver

2.1 Run adb shell to navigate to the console of Blade 3. 

2.2 Update the boot image file:

sudo dd if=boot.img of=/dev/mmcblk1p3 conv=sync

2.3 Install the driver:

sudo dpkg -i miop-control-arm64.deb

Step 3. Install the driver to other Blade 3 boards

Repeat the preceding steps to update the boot image file and install the driver to the other three Blade 3 boards.

Step 4. Reboot Cluster Box

Step 5. Check whether Blade 3 boards are displayed either via SSH or via GUI

Method 1: Via SSH

1. Log in to Cluster Box by running the ssh mixtile@Cluster Box IP address command.
2. List active Blade 3 boards by running the nodectl list command. 
   If the command output shows the four Blade 3 boards as shown below, they have been started properly.

If no device is found, run the rescan command and then the list command to view the device.

03:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)

04:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)

05:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)

06:00.0 Network controller: Mixtile Limited Blade 3 (rev 01)

Method 2: Via GUI:

1. Log in to the web page of Cluster Box.
2. Scroll the page to the Active DHCP Leases area.
   If the four Blade 3 boards are displayed as shown below, they have been started properly.